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In the current exhibition, works from the Kunsthalle’s collection come together in a playful, dreamlike dialog. Inspired by these works, personal pictorial narratives between drawing and painting are created during the weekend.

On 8 and 9.2.25
14 to 17.30 hrs each

It is necessary to buy a ticket for the event in advance or to register at:
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Painting, drawing, printing, modeling – try different materials and techniques and have fun together.
You can do all this in our Kids-ART-studio. Discover with us the exciting world of art with experiments rich in color and form.

Fifth of six dates until 18.2.25. The course is aimed at children aged 5 to 8 years.

It is necessary to buy a ticket for the event in advance or to register.

Registration and Information:
Tania Müller
mueller@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521.3299950-18

Zuhal Özbey
oezbey@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521.3299950-19

The experiment continues!

What might a virtual museum experience look like? Join us in the experimentation of how virtual reality can become a social site where art can be experienced in a new way. Come by and take a walk through our emerging digital architecture.

In the lobby
VR headset use for ages 10 and up.

More information on the Virtual Kunsthalle project

Highlights

The experiment continues!

What might a virtual museum experience look like? Join us in the experimentation of how virtual reality can become a social site where art can be experienced in a new way. Come by and take a walk through our emerging digital architecture.

In the lobby
VR headset use for ages 10 and up.

More information on the Virtual Kunsthalle project

We are now living in a planetary age. Humans know that, as living beings, they are part of larger contexts on which they depend and for which they bear responsibility. We are powerful and powerless at the same time. This fragile, vulnerable “position in the cosmos” (Scheler) is also expressed in art. Art and nature are connected, which is why we can put our relationship to nature to the test and change it through aesthetic experience. This lecture deals with the relationship between man, art and nature on the basis of the exhibited works.

About Markus Gabriel
Markus Gabriel (born 1980) studied in Hagen, Bonn and Heidelberg. He was a postdoc in Lisbon and New York, where he took up his first professorship at the New School for Social Research in 2008. Since 2009, he has held the Chair of Epistemology and Modern Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he has been Director of the International Center for Philosophy since 2012. In 2017, he founded the interdisciplinary Center for Science and Thought, of which he has been the director ever since. He is a regular visiting professor at the Sorbonne (Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) and the New School for Social Research in New York City. Since 2024, he has also been Senior Global Advisor at the Kyoto Institute of Philosophy.

Ceremonies help us to anchor ourselves in the moment, to reflect and to integrate. Through them we create spaces of recognition, conscious alignment and deepen our sense of connection.

In the Closing Ceremony for the finissage of the exhibition “Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet” at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, we create a safe framework for reflection and integration. The ceremony is based on a guided meditation with blue lotus, designed and led by multidisciplinary artist Alina Lutz. The ceremony serves to arrive with what is and to experience a deeper sense of unity.

Please register, there is a limited number of participants.
anmeldung@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
T 0521 329995018

Please wear comfortable clothing. Meditation cushions are available on site.
Preparation: It is recommended to abstain from alcohol and coffee in the hours before the ceremony and to eat light food immediately beforehand.

Alina Lutz
Alina Lutz (*1999) is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist who combines art and ceremony. Deeply connected to nature, especially the Black Sea, she explores themes such as transformation, sensuality and the subconscious in her work. Alina’s creative process is intuitive and emotional, with the body serving as both muse and medium.

https://alinalutz.de

 

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Thomas Handke: What does the Kunsthalle Bielefeld sound like?
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Yana Wernicke: From quarry to art gallery – the red Main sandstone
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.
Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.

Vincent Hölscher: Engine room
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.
Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.

Jonas Feige: The atmosphere of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

A curved reflection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld building. Columns and the protruding first floor can be recognised.
A curved reflection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld building. Columns and the protruding first floor can be recognised.

These are our architects
Caruso St John Architects have been appointed

Five people stand in a row in front of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. They look cheerful.

Caruso St John have been appointed architects for the renovation of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Five people stand in a row in front of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. They look cheerful.

The path to a climate-friendly museum
A contribution by Prof. Peter Gorschlüter

Presentation slide for the Museum Folkwang

A blog post by Prof. Peter Gorschlüter on his lecture ‘The path to a climate-friendly museum’.

Presentation slide for the Museum Folkwang

Look up – the road to a green museum
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon

A labyrinth of various pipes, cylinders and measurement displays. In the bottom right corner it states: Air conditioning Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Stefan Simon on his lecture ‘Look up – the path to the green museum’.

A labyrinth of various pipes, cylinders and measurement displays. In the bottom right corner it states: Air conditioning Humboldt Forum, Berlin.

Peace with Gaia – perspectives, possibilities and limits of cultural institutions in the sustainability transformation process
A contribution from Ministerial Councillor Ralph Zinnikus

Black and white photo of an old globe in a wooden frame with four legs and a ring around the equator.

A blog post by Ministerialrat Ralph Zinnikus on his lecture ‘Peace with Gaia – perspectives, possibilities and limits of cultural institutions in the sustainability transformation process’.

Black and white photo of an old globe in a wooden frame with four legs and a ring around the equator.

Curating as Care Work: Of the Museum Climate in Planetary Interdependencies and Cultural Imaginaries.
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Elke Krasny

Dark beige background with black lettering: Curating as care work imagines and practices grief work and care for the future and insists on the hope that a culture of the living, in which human and non-human living beings can breathe again with their planet Earth, is possible.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Elke Krasny on her lecture ‘Curating as care work: On the museum climate in planetary interdependencies and cultural imaginaries’.

Dark beige background with black lettering: Curating as care work imagines and practices grief work and care for the future and insists on the hope that a culture of the living, in which human and non-human living beings can breathe again with their planet Earth, is possible.

The city, the box, the art and the climate. Attempt at a relational reassembly
A contribution by Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess

On a white background is written several times in black handwriting, in various sizes: Museum, below a square through which is written ,Power

A blog post by Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bernd Kniess on his lecture ‘The city, the box, art and the climate. Attempt at a relational reassembly’.

On a white background is written several times in black handwriting, in various sizes: Museum, below a square through which is written ,Power

Exhibiting and preserving as toxic paradigms. Can cultural institutions negotiate the environmental crisis?
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann

A large fire at dusk. It eats its way through a construction of wooden slats that form a building.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Peter J. Schneemann on his lecture ‘Exhibiting and preserving as toxic paradigms. Can cultural institutions negotiate the environmental crisis?

A large fire at dusk. It eats its way through a construction of wooden slats that form a building.

Rewilding the white cube: the role of art museums in tackling the climate emergency
A contribution from Frances Morris

A very high, shaft-like room. The entire floor is covered by a white, paintable surface on which countless drawings can be seen. People can be seen adding drawings all over the room. Large sheets of white fabric covered with splashes of paint hang from the ceiling.

A blog post by Frances Morris on her talk ‘Rewilding the white cube: the role of art museums in addressing climate emergency’.

A very high, shaft-like room. The entire floor is covered by a white, paintable surface on which countless drawings can be seen. People can be seen adding drawings all over the room. Large sheets of white fabric covered with splashes of paint hang from the ceiling.

The spatial culture of the museum
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Kali Tzorzti

On the left side six pictures of white painted exhibition rooms. Art from the Middle Ages hangs on the walls. To the right is a floor plan drawing with many black lines running through the rooms at different densities, on different paths. A red line marks a circular path through the rooms.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Kali Tzorzti on her keynote lecture ‘The spatial culture of museums’.

On the left side six pictures of white painted exhibition rooms. Art from the Middle Ages hangs on the walls. To the right is a floor plan drawing with many black lines running through the rooms at different densities, on different paths. A red line marks a circular path through the rooms.

Vulnerable Processes. Vulnerable Processes. A Curatorial Reflection on the Museum in Transition.
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Doreen Mende

On the left, an oblong, rectangular flyer in magenta, on the right one in yellow. In large black letters on the top of both is written: Stannaki Forum Art and Research in Conversation. Below that on the left it says: 05.04.23 Motif, FROMPO. On the right it says: 07.06.23 Mining, AQU.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Doreen Mende on his keynote lecture ,Vulnerable Processes. A Curatorial Reflection on the Museum in Transition.’

On the left, an oblong, rectangular flyer in magenta, on the right one in yellow. In large black letters on the top of both is written: Stannaki Forum Art and Research in Conversation. Below that on the left it says: 05.04.23 Motif, FROMPO. On the right it says: 07.06.23 Mining, AQU.

Abhängen statt aufhängen? – Museum Spaces and the New Ethics of Communitization
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg

In a yellow-painted hall-like space stands a large seating area. The stair-like construction is made of poles from scaffolding and wooden boards.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg on his impulse lecture ,Hang up instead of hanging up? – Museum Spaces and the New Ethics of Communion’.

In a yellow-painted hall-like space stands a large seating area. The stair-like construction is made of poles from scaffolding and wooden boards.

The overwhelmed monument
A contribution by Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg

Two blocks of four photos in portrait format. Each shows a section of a building and a word in capital letters: Obvious, Accepted, The opposite of obsious, Incalculable, Forgotten, Hidden, Think ahead, Continue.

A blog post by Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg on his impulse lecture ,Das überforderte Denkmal’.

Two blocks of four photos in portrait format. Each shows a section of a building and a word in capital letters: Obvious, Accepted, The opposite of obsious, Incalculable, Forgotten, Hidden, Think ahead, Continue.